Post by spereira on Feb 22, 2024 19:14:38 GMT -7
Some time ago, one of my AW dragsters lost a pickup shoe spring. Along the way, I purchased a 12 pack of springs. Today, I decided that I’d replace that lost spring and play around with getting the shoes to be flat on the track.
What a pain in the butt replacing that spring was! It ended up taking me almost an hour of fiddling around to get the spring to stay in place while getting the shoe back on. In that process, I ending up losing a couple more that went flying off into the room somewhere.
The AW chassis that I have have a shallow dish that the spring sits in, and the shoe comes over and keeps it in place. My one Jag DR-1 has a deep well that that holds the springs nicely. For me, the AW design is very difficult to work with.
Does anyone have any tips on how to assemble an AW pickup shoe and spring?
Thanks for listening to my rant…
smp
What a pain in the butt replacing that spring was! It ended up taking me almost an hour of fiddling around to get the spring to stay in place while getting the shoe back on. In that process, I ending up losing a couple more that went flying off into the room somewhere.
The AW chassis that I have have a shallow dish that the spring sits in, and the shoe comes over and keeps it in place. My one Jag DR-1 has a deep well that that holds the springs nicely. For me, the AW design is very difficult to work with.
Does anyone have any tips on how to assemble an AW pickup shoe and spring?
Thanks for listening to my rant…
smp
